Orange
Day - a day to take action to raise awareness and prevent violence against
women and girls on Monday, September 25th 2017 ! Violence against Older
women
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to support the fight Violence Against Women and girls
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Today is
Orange Day.
Take action to Orange your day on Monday,
September 25th 2017 !!!
This Orange
Day, 25 September 2017, the UNiTE Campaign focuses on Violence against Older women.
For this
Orange Day, 25 September 2017, the UNiTE Campaign has teamed up with AARP to
put a spotlight on the issue of Violence
against Older Women, recognizing that women remain at risk for violence
throughout their lives.
Physical, sexual and psychological violence,
financial exploitation, neglect and other forms of violence against older women
are widespread yet mostly hidden. It occurs in multiple, oftenintersecting forms by varying perpetrators,
including intimate partners or spouses, family members, caregivers (both in and
outside of institutional settings), or members of their community. 1
Older women
face a greater risk of physical and psychological abuse than older men due to discriminatory
societal attitudes and the non-realization of the human rights of women. Despite
policies and programmes adopted by many countries at the national level,
reports of incidents of violence against older women have grown at an alarming
rate.2 Some harmful
traditional and customary practices, such as the denial of land inheritance
rights to widows 3,
result in abuse and violence directed at older women, often exacerbated by
poverty and lack of access to legal protection. 4 Recent findings5
draw specific attention to incidents of violence and murder of older women
following accusations of witchcraft acts embedded in customs and social
structures that render older women as targets of their own families and
communities. In many countries, institutions established to provide care for
older women and men are not managed properly and low standards of care go
unchecked. 6
A major
challenge in addressing violence against older women is the lack of reliable,
comprehensive data, particularly in vulnerable settings, such as conflict areas
or disaster zones, or from marginalized populations, such as immigrant and
refugee older women, older women with disabilities, indigenous older women, LBT
older women, and others. One of the few prevalence studies to focus on violence
and abuse against older women was conducted in five European Union countries. Results
of this study showed that 28% of older
women reported experiencing some form of abuse in the previous year (neglect,
emotional, financial, physical, sexual, and/or “violation of rights”). Emotional
abuse was the highest-reported category, with 24% reporting this type of abuse
in the home in the previous 12 months.
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The 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development and its commitment to leave no one behind holds
promise for greater inclusion of older women. However, this can only be
achieved through extending data collection on women subjected to physical
and/or sexual violence from the upper age limit of 49 years, which stems from a
traditional focus on women in reproductive age, to the age 50 and beyond. Regardless
of their age, all women are entitled to a life free from violence and its
consequences. Any measure taken to achieve Goal 5 and eliminate all forms of
violence against all women and girls
must include older women—this means including older women in prevention,
response, and data collection efforts to monitor prevalence and progress on
relevant Goal 5 targets and indicators.
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What is Orange Day ?
The UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, managed by UN Women, has
proclaimed every 25th of the month as “Orange Day” – a day to take action to
raise awareness and prevent violence against women and girls.
Initiated and led by the
UNiTE campaign Global Youth Network, Orange Day calls upon activists, governments
and UN partners to mobilize people and highlight issues relevant to preventing
and ending violence against women and girls, not only once a year, on 25
November (International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women), but every month.
Take action to this Orange Day
Policymakers & practitioners, take
a look at this policy brief by UNDP: Leave No
One Behind: Ageing,
Gender, and the SDGs. It provides guidance on what can be
done to integrate both a gender and ageing lens in policy and programming to
implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including greater
attention to older women survivors of gender-based violence.
Civil society organizations working
with women and girls, particularly on gender-based violence, can commit to
increasing the visibility of older survivors by using age-inclusive language in
materials and programming, as well as featuring images of older women in
public-facing products. For example, framing gender-based violence as a rights
violation that occurs “across the lifespan/life cycle” or calling for the
empowerment of women and girls “of all ages.”
Organize an awareness-raising event
or activity in your community center to spark a
conversation on elder abuse, and late-life intimate partner and sexual
violence. This toolkit provides
useful tips and resources to support you in organizing your event!
Co-sponsor a lecture,
debate, or presentation on
ways to prevent
abuse and neglect
in later life in
a retirement home in your local community.
